Umar Quotes
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Gee I don't know, I just want to get home.
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We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.
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I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
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I am thrilled to get the chance to write comics - and to tell Forgotten Realms tales, to boot!
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.
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Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is.
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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
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I worked in TV for a short time and couldn't stand the fact that we'd always be filming someone talking, just giving information.
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Sometimes I'll turn the channel and there's the movie and I can honestly say that those last few minutes always fascinate me. It's one of the rare instances when image, music, and drama work effectively.
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It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.
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The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.
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May Allah have mercy on him who sends me my faults as a present.
